Reprint: On Earth When It Was in Heaven: Sacred Time and its Protection in Egyptian Temples

Kerry Muhlestein

Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-symbols-sermons-and-settings/.

“The splendorous ruins of hundreds of Egyptian temples, along with dozens of surviving texts that describe the function and rituals of those temples, afford a unique and exciting opportunity to understand ancient temples and what they teach about modern temple systems. There is so much to learn from ancient Egyptian temples, but this chapter will specifically examine the concept that temples can transcend time, and in doing so, they transform participants and their cosmos.”

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About the Interpreter Foundation Book Chapter Reprint Series

The purpose of this reprint series is to make individual chapters from books published by The Interpreter Foundation more accessible to readers. Although in some instances the formatting and pagination may have been changed, the content of this chapter, like others in this reprint series, is identical to what appeared in its original book publication. It has not been updated to incorporate research that has appeared subsequently nor to reflect the current practice of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to use the full name of the Church and to avoid terms such as “Mormon” and “LDS.”

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